Suspected Ebola case in Singapore false alarm

In this handout from the Center for Disease Control, a colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a Ebola virus virion is seen.

Reports of Singapore's first case of Ebola, the deadly viral outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, have been confirmed as false, the Straits Times reported on Thursday.

A Nigerian woman in her 50s was identified as a possible Ebola case by doctors at Gleneagles hospital on Thursday.

She was immediately isolated and transferred by ambulance to the Communicable Diseases Centre at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), but the hospital has since confirmed that the woman does not have the disease.